St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-17
The Whites Cannot Gobble Up
the Sisseton Lands as
They Expected.
Legal Rows in Hyde, Jerauld
and Brule Countless
Nuts for Pierce.
The Coming Fairs at Grand
Forks and Huron--Gen-
eral Dakota Matters.

RAPID CITY, Dak., Sept. 16.-HOn.
NJ. 81. Day has spent most of the sum-
mer in the Black Hills, his recent trip
to Washington being his longest absence.
Wherever he has gone Mr.. Day is the
center of throng of friends and re-
porters-party fealty and good-fellow-
ship attracting the former, and laud-
able ambition to extract from him some
utterance that should cast newspaper
red light on the Democratic politics and
division question of Dakota impelling
the latter. 1t has been the impression
among Republicans whose wishes were
fathers to their thoughts, perhaps, that
| there was an antagonist between Mr..
mlnlstrations; and many Democrats
have feared the same. On his arrival
in this place from Washington the re-
porter of the GLOBE sought Mr..
Day out, to see if the name
of this paper would prove any
more talismanic to unlock the
leaders lips. Mr.. Day was found, as
usual, surrounded by party friends
prominent among them Postmaster
Schnasse, Register of Deeds CAN'T, mine
Host Mccarthy, of the International,
and other lights of Pennington county
| Democracy. He and they were quite
free to talk, and the interview took
rather the shape of a Democratic con-
ference meeting, the GLOBE presiding.
Mr.. Day welcomed the correspondent
| with hearty good word for that paper
| he represented and its Dakota edition
| with characteristic heartiness, and pro-
fessed his willingness to give the GLOBE
any information he possessed. But
he said, tentatively, II don't want
| things that l do not say imputed to me,
IC CnmQtImaS nnnn in rfain
in the Northwest; and do not think
there is anything to be said politically
| that is OF interest to any one. There is
this year no political stir in this terri
| tory, separate from individual plans.
and of what individuals are doing and
saying of political interest l am quite
uniformed. have been away from
home, secluded among the mines, most
| OF the summer, and am about the most
USELESS STUFF FOR IN INTERVIEWER
that there is in Dakota, / should think.
said to a reporter in Washington, the
other day, something to correct misin--
formation about my feelings and rela-
lions to the president. Little as care
to be mlSrepreSented, and am DESTROYS
to be set as l am when misquoted. My
relations with the administration are all
that desire them to be-
Eyes. interrupted Jake GantZ, as the
journal says, IT any one thinks Mr.. Day
has no influence in Washington, let him
try to get Dakota appointment against
him."
rs the president as strong in Dakota
as he was in the earlier days of his adj
miniStratiOn, Mr.. Day?"
Eyes, quite as strong. There is so
little dissent from this opinion among
Dakota Democrats that it can be said
that Cleveland is solid in Dakota, and
no influence can prevent his getting the
vote of the territorial delegates in the
next national convention"
In this opinion all Democrats present
heartily concurred. Mr.. Day added:
lit is my observation and opinion that
Cleveland will be found stronger in the
West than in the East, although his adj
visers and his policy have been Eastern
in their main characteristics"
us the party as much united in Da-
kOta ON other adminiStratiOnS-terri-
tOrial, for instance?"
81 answer, generally, that the DemOc-
racy of Dakota was never so strong in
discipline, unity and numbers as it is
to-day. There has been considerable
said in certain papers-mOstly Republic
can, you will nOtice-abOut the division
and split in the party. There is no such
llOuulS. w udG llItlc i have
is eXerted to diSSipate such impressions,
and prevent their being true at any
time in the future. Ii there are men
prominent in the counsels of the party
who have any personal following that
seems to be inharmOniouS or antag-
Onlstic to the party generally they are
too few and too little influential to be
an element of discord, much less to con-
stitute faction. The party was never
in better shape than at this time. There
is no one of influence in the party with
whom my own relations are not pleas
ant so l am qualified to speak ON the
point of party unity"
"What has been the effect among
Democrats of Commissioner Sparks
policy regarding land pre-emptions?''
1.-The effect has been bad. 1t has hurt
us more than any other or all other
causes. His policy is almost
UNIVERSALLY CONDEMNED IN DAKOTA,
and to that extent the policy of the adj
ministration is unpopular. They re-
gard his utteranceS as an aspersiOn on
the character of the Western people,
and his rulings as direct iniuS-
tlce and hardship to honest settlers"
docs not that feeling affect their ap-
proval of the president who put him
there and keeps him there?"
mo, because we believe the president
and Sparks are rejecting the ideas of a
majority of the party in the whole coun-
try. He is an Eastern man and has the
Eastern ideas of the West and Western
peoples influenced by Eastern opin-
ion in his policy touching the West. We
make allowances for all this. and we
believe that the land policy of the adj
ministratiOn is simply based on misap-
prehension of the true state of this
country. Therefore we do not hold the
president, but his advisers, responsible
for this mistaken and injurious policy.
But we can hardly expect it to be other
wise so long as Eastern opinion is para
mount in the government councils. 1t
is not question of party policy so much
as a matter of sectional prejudice and
antagoniSm. The same is true of the
opening of the reservation. Eastern
ideas of the noble red man are in con-
troll, and we can't get an unprecedented
hearing for the Western white mans
side of the question at Washington from
Democrats or Republicans"
"What is the condition of the terri
torial-division canvass?'
II am not informed what progress has
been made and / am not COM
petent to give an intelligent opin-
ion of the feeling; l have been
out of the line of territorial politics so
long that dO not know what is being
said or done on that question" Asked
if there were any truth i'm the published
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